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Re: The VCE journey of a hums student
« Reply #15 on: April 08, 2018, 10:53:01 pm »
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Update #2: 08/04/2018

The holidays are halfway over already so I've decided to update in order to convince myself to be more productive for next week, by making myself face the horrible truth of how little I've actually achieved since the holidays started.

So let us continue on a rather sombre note~

Let's first look at what I've (miraculously) achieved.
Methods: Got all my holiday homework done, and then like a bug flying headfirst into a lightbulb I also decided to willingly attempt a notoriously difficult specialist maths worksheet our teacher accidentally gave us, and just like that bug, I got absolutely roasted.

Chemistry: I have Edrolo playing whenever I step into the shower (with a waterproof case of course) which was weird at first because Katherine Roan just stares at you the whole time... while I'm in the shower. But now I'm just used to it ;D it's a good way to save time.

Literature: I watched the movie Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. That's it. For an entire week, all I did was watch a 2 hour movie. I also attempted a practice essay but it was really short.

History: The holiday homework is making me lose my sanity (or what's left of it anyway). I like reading, but when the book was written more than 2500 thousand years ago, by a guy who is allergic to full stops, who ended the book mid-sentence, it makes me wonder why I'm doing a subject that requires more reading than literature, global politics, and chinese added together.

Global Politics: I've been watching the news every night and also diligently scrolls through memes of Fat Kim the Third (what China calls Kim Jong Un. I'm not kidding). In other words, I've totally gotten a lot done.

Oh AND of course I went to some ATAR Notes lectures - methods on Saturday, lit and chem today. Personally found methods and lit very helpful (seriously, I learnt more from Lauren in 3 hours than I did from my lit teacher for 3 terms. Thanks for giving me PRACTICAL advice rather than just 'oh just do what you feel like is right'). I found the chemistry lecture useful as well, though my energy level wasn't as great as it was in the morning and the pace was a bit quick for me  :-\  My sister found the chem lecture helpful though, and she thought the pace was good. So I guess I just have to keep working on doing problems faster.
Honestly, whenever I see a problem in chem I have to physically stare at it for 20 seconds (or more) before I start.

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By the way I've attached the practice essay I wrote for lit, it's not that good and it's below the word limit, but I would really appreciate it if someone takes a look and give me some feedback? Be as harsh and critical as you want!  ;D
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Re: The VCE journey of a hums student
« Reply #16 on: April 09, 2018, 12:29:25 am »
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What's Ancient History like?

Was disappointed that my school only offered Revolutions - I think the first year of Ancient History was the year I graduated, though. History subjects are definitely content heavy and require a lot of work, but IMO they're so worth it. History was my favourite (and best) subject and I still miss it a few years down the track! I hope you'll have some fond memories to look back on by the end of the year :) if nothing else, you'll have gained some knowledge that'll be handy at trivia nights ;)

Hope you enjoy the rest of your holidays!

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Re: The VCE journey of a hums student
« Reply #17 on: April 09, 2018, 10:52:01 am »
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What's Ancient History like?
It's definitely one of the most 'fun' VCE subjects to do, incredibly content heavy and there's a lot of reading involved which I always like to complain about, but at the end of the day it's still the class I look forward to the most. We're studying Ancient Greece right now and while the content seems not as relevant to today's society as revs you can still make connections between ancient societies and ours today which is amazing.

Which two revolutions did you do by the way?
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Re: The VCE journey of a hums student
« Reply #18 on: April 09, 2018, 03:17:23 pm »
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It's definitely one of the most 'fun' VCE subjects to do, incredibly content heavy and there's a lot of reading involved which I always like to complain about, but at the end of the day it's still the class I look forward to the most. We're studying Ancient Greece right now and while the content seems not as relevant to today's society as revs you can still make connections between ancient societies and ours today which is amazing.

Which two revolutions did you do by the way?
Nice - thanks for the info! :)

I did China and Russia! Really, really enjoyed it (particularly China). Probably the subject I got the most out of from high school - made me more aware of the world and I definitely had a better understanding of how things have come to be the way they are in the present day.

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« Reply #19 on: April 09, 2018, 10:31:21 pm »
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I did China and Russia! Really, really enjoyed it (particularly China). Probably the subject I got the most out of from high school - made me more aware of the world and I definitely had a better understanding of how things have come to be the way they are in the present day.
So true! Hate it when people say 'history's already happened so it's not relevant anymore'. Chinese and Russian revolution especially. since they're pretty recent and are now both superpowers, they really impact the world we live in today. For global politics we actually had to study China and Russia's revolution, and also some French revolution as well. I wish I did revs, it sounds so interesting! (and spicy ;D)
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Re: The VCE journey of a hums student
« Reply #20 on: April 09, 2018, 11:52:21 pm »
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Whoa I just read your latest post and I can relate so hard lmao.
Love shower time with Katherine. I think I need someone to tell me "yeh U can" as I get out of the shower </3
Also same W chemistry the vcaa questions are so damn long it gives me high key anxiety to read them.
Love your work, I will continue to read. Gotta say I was motivated to reply just because your essay is called Big Daddy and the kid yodelling in Walmart is my life at the moment (sad times). BUT now I'm v curious about these lit subjects we don't even have at our school. Nice nice.
Hope you're having a good holiday!!
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Re: The VCE journey of a hums student
« Reply #21 on: April 10, 2018, 11:07:19 am »
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Love your work, I will continue to read. Gotta say I was motivated to reply just because your essay is called Big Daddy and the kid yodelling in Walmart is my life at the moment (sad times).
Somehow I wasn't aware of the yodelling kid but I just googled it and MY LIFE HAS CHANGED! He's just adorable! Should really try to work him into my essay or something  ;D

Also same W chemistry the vcaa questions are so damn long it gives me high key anxiety to read them.
Hahah same! Especially when they give you a whole damn paragraph but all you need to do is balance a friggin equation!

Btw I've been reading your VCE journal for a while now and I just really need to say, your scores are absolutely insane! You'll absolutely smash VCE this year! Enjoy the rest of your holidays :)
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Re: The VCE journey of a hums student
« Reply #22 on: April 10, 2018, 09:25:54 pm »
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Somehow I wasn't aware of the yodelling kid but I just googled it and MY LIFE HAS CHANGED! He's just adorable! Should really try to work him into my essay or something  ;D
Hahah same! Especially when they give you a whole damn paragraph but all you need to do is balance a friggin equation!
Hahaha!! I think the meme will die pretty quick but it's pretty funny for now. You should watch the remix ones hahah.
Btw I've been reading your VCE journal for a while now and I just really need to say, your scores are absolutely insane! You'll absolutely smash VCE this year! Enjoy the rest of your holidays :)
Thank you!! Right back at you! I'm just hoping it'll all be over soon, but for now we just have to keep grinding :( Best of luck and enjoy your holidays too!!
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Re: The VCE journey of a hums student
« Reply #23 on: April 16, 2018, 04:05:24 pm »
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Update #3: 16/04/2018

Well, school has started again… in all honesty I’m not complaining much. During the holidays I woke up well past noon each day and would do five minutes of work followed by two hours of YouTube, and slacking all day definitely doesn’t help when it’s VCE. So I’m glad I’m back at school otherwise I’ll never pick up my pace.

Now that I’ve got my ‘feelings’ out of the way let’s get on to what actually happened.
News No. 1:

I got two SAC results back today: lit and history.

History: A. Slightly concerned, as I just made it past the A mark. It was a source analysis SAC and while I did pretty well on the short responses I messed up the longer questions (just as I predicted back in my first post). For one of the questions I only got 5/10, which is pretty bad. At least now I know what I need to work on.

Literature: A / A+ (overall: A). I’m actually really pleased with this mark. It was a creative SAC, I got A+ for my reflective commentary, but A for the actual piece, and as the creative is worth 80% my overall grade was A. Still, I’m pretty happy with it. Definitely way more pleased with this than history.

News No. 2:

I asked my methods teacher how’s my progress compared to the rest of my cohort. At first she did the classic ‘sugar-coating response’ and also tried to dodge my question by saying she doesn’t know since we haven’t had a SAC yet. But I finally got it out of her. Anyway, her response was: “Not bad for someone who only do humanities subjects.”

EXCUUUUUUUUUUUSE ME!

Gotta say, I’m now even more motivated to do well in methods just to prove her wrong.

Well, that’s it from me for now. Hope everyone’s surviving enjoying their first day back! ;D
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Re: The VCE journey of a hums student
« Reply #24 on: April 16, 2018, 04:28:18 pm »
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Congrats on your lit mark.

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« Reply #25 on: April 17, 2018, 10:03:33 am »
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Congrats on your lit mark.

Thank you! ;D ;D
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Re: The VCE journey of a hums student
« Reply #26 on: May 01, 2018, 09:33:53 pm »
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Update #4: 01/05/2018

April went by way too quickly, we're now exactly 6 months away from the final exams... I wonder when's an appropriate time to start getting stressed.

News No. 1
We got our year 12 jumpers today, one week later than planned but at least they're here. Me and some mates got nicknames of elements on the periodic table that starts with the same letter as our names (I know, what nerds), I'm Potassium (my name starts with K) ;D we've also got Tungsten, Krypton, Lutetium, and Francium.

News No. 2
We've finished Unit 3 for literature. Last Tuesday we had our adaptations SAC, which we started on the first week back.
Funny story time: our original SAC was planned for Thursday, halfway through the SAC WE SUDDENLY HAD A F***ING FIRE DRILL (apparently our lit teacher was not aware that we'd be having an evacuation on the day). We ended up finishing it on Tuesday, except all of us already know the topic by then so everyone in the class came in prepared. We were told that both our teacher and the teacher cross marking our SAC would be extra picky while marking, since we all came in on Tuesday prepared.

News No. 3
We have a chem SAC coming up for Unit 3 AOS 2 next Wednesday, and my methods and global politics SACs are the week after, methods is especially terrifying since it accounts for 17% of the final study score. I can sense a tsunami of stress coming to engulf me any moment, and I PROMISE to stop procrastinating as soon as I finish this entry.

On another note, a lot of kids at my school doing the Asian 5 will be soon descending down into hell next week, since many of them will have their chem, physics, and specialist maths sac on the SAME DAY. Pray for them guys. (Glad I'm not one of them).

Well, that's it for now. I hope I stop procrastinating.
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Re: The VCE journey of a hums student
« Reply #27 on: May 02, 2018, 07:56:12 am »
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Well, that's it for now. I hope I stop procrastinating.
Me

Also we had a fire drill yesterday!! Coincidence huh. It's was before the SAC because they're organised by our Chem teacher haha
Definitely feel you re methods... How are you going to prepare?
And lol for literature. Hope you did well

What's your go to remedy for procrastination?
Have a good week :D
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« Reply #28 on: May 02, 2018, 09:26:18 am »
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Also we had a fire drill yesterday!! Coincidence huh. It's was before the SAC because they're organised by our Chem teacher haha
Definitely feel you re methods... How are you going to prepare?
Was the chem sac on electrolysis? How did it go?  ;D

For methods I'm probably just gonna do as much practice papers as possible (going over theory doesn't seem to ever work in methods) and hope for the best ...  I'm really thankful of the fact that the SAC is gonna be split into 3 parts, though I guess on the other hand it prolongs the suffering.

Is your methods sac coming up too? Or did your school do it in term 1?

What's your go to remedy for procrastination?
Go onto ATARNotes and convince myself that reading VCE-related posts is technically doing work 8)

In all seriousness, I've been training myself not to procrastinate the same way I train my dog to not pee on the carpet: rewarding after small achievements. Not gonna lie, it actually works.
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Re: The VCE journey of a hums student
« Reply #29 on: May 02, 2018, 05:49:43 pm »
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Update #4: 01/05/2018

April went by way too quickly, we're now exactly 6 months away from the final exams... I wonder when's an appropriate time to start getting stressed.

News No. 1
We got our year 12 jumpers today, one week later than planned but at least they're here. Me and some mates got nicknames of elements on the periodic table that starts with the same letter as our names (I know, what nerds), I'm Potassium (my name starts with K) ;D we've also got Tungsten, Krypton, Lutetium, and Francium.

News No. 2
We've finished Unit 3 for literature. Last Tuesday we had our adaptations SAC, which we started on the first week back.
Funny story time: our original SAC was planned for Thursday, halfway through the SAC WE SUDDENLY HAD A F***ING FIRE DRILL (apparently our lit teacher was not aware that we'd be having an evacuation on the day). We ended up finishing it on Tuesday, except all of us already know the topic by then so everyone in the class came in prepared. We were told that both our teacher and the teacher cross marking our SAC would be extra picky while marking, since we all came in on Tuesday prepared.

News No. 3
We have a chem SAC coming up for Unit 3 AOS 2 next Wednesday, and my methods and global politics SACs are the week after, methods is especially terrifying since it accounts for 17% of the final study score. I can sense a tsunami of stress coming to engulf me any moment, and I PROMISE to stop procrastinating as soon as I finish this entry.

On another note, a lot of kids at my school doing the Asian 5 will be soon descending down into hell next week, since many of them will have their chem, physics, and specialist maths sac on the SAME DAY. Pray for them guys. (Glad I'm not one of them).

Well, that's it for now. I hope I stop procrastinating.
The fire drill sucks, man, so unlucky :( Hopefully you were still OK to do fine despite it.
I'm doing the Asian Five, and that's me next week... goodbye, cruel world :(
Nice on getting the jackets, hope they're as awesome as they should be after such a long wait.
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